Here Are The Eight Most Racist Comments From Trump’s New Attorney General

Donald Trump has chosen Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, a former judge and now Senator from Alabama, to be his Attorney General. In case the hiring of white supremacist Stephen Bannon to be Chief Strategist left any doubt, Trump’s choice of Sessions is a clear signal to non-whites in America that their rights are in clear and present danger.

Sessions’ bid to become a federal district court judge in 1986 was rejected over concerns that he was too racist to be trusted to make impartial decisions. Thomas H. Figures and J. Gerald Hebert and at least two other Department of Justice lawyers testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Sessions had made multiple racist remarks to them.

Some of the more notable alleged remarks:

Sessions, when presented with the documents for a civil rights case, threw the folder on the table and said he wished he “could decline all of them.”

But the most devastating condemnation came from legendary politician Ted Kennedy said that “[It is] inconceivable … that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a U.S. attorney, let alone a United States federal judge … [He has] gross insensitivity to the questions of race.”

Trump has appointed a white supremacist to be his Attorney General, sending a clear message to the American people that the racism that defined his campaign will be a defining feature of his white house. It is an absolute disgrace to our nation that this walking caricature of Confederate racism will be in charge of dispensing justice in the United States.

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Colin Taylor is the managing editor of Occupy Democrats. He graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor's degree in history and political science. He now focuses on advancing the cause of social justice and equality in America.